Skip to main content
2009 | Color | 85 min

With an old taxi cab converted into a raft and posing as a Cuban, Silverio sails to Miami. He decides to do what no one in his family or none of his friends have been able to do: enter the United States and live there “legally.” But between the bad weather and his broken compass, Silverio doesn’t reach his planned destiny. Instead he finds himself in Cuba where he discovers many surprises.


Country: México
Direction: Curiel de Icaza; Álvaro
Script: Curiel de Icaza; Álvaro
Production: Uruchurtu; Juan, Solares; Sandra
Photography: Lammers; German
Sound: Franco; Andrés, Cámara; Fernando
Music: Martín; Ricardo
Cast:Palacios; Silverio, de La Uz; Laura, Sánchez Santiago Alfonso; Salvador, Angélica; Norma, Molina Azalia Ortiz; Enrique, Alberto García; Luis, Holiday; Terry, Colombo; Juan Carlos
Participation year at FICM: 2010

Director Movies

Cosme

Cosme
Alongside his teenage daughter Abril, Cosme travels from town to town in a battered van, making a living by performing on the street. When they return to his hometown, the ghosts of his past resurface: a broken family, old betrayals, and the life that might have been. As Cosme sinks into nostalgia and his own pride, Abril begins to discover the world on her own, with a lucidity that transcends her adolescence. See More

Wounded

Nine-year-old Hugo lives in Mexico City. Hugo is tormented by the physical and verbal abuse inflicted on him and his mother by his father. Hugo intends to take revenge, and his mother comes to realize what her son may be capable of doing. 

See More

If an Instant

Another evening in a Mexico City neighborhood. In an instant, a harmless game becomes a death trap.

See More

Related News

Ganadores 24 FICM
The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12
LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS, de Piero F. Giunti y Doug Blush, se proyectó en la 24ª edición del FICM
LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM
La muerte es temporal Cerveza Victoria
LA MUERTE ES TEMPORAL, EL AMOR ES ETERNO A Short by Cerveza Victoria Celebrating Day of the Dead at the 24th FICM
CIFF
FICM and the Curacao Film Festival Reaffirm Their Alliance to Promote Cinema With a Showcase of Caribbean Short Films